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Sleek Portable Cutlery by Zoku, an Industrial-Designer-Led Brand
This sleek, modern take on portable cutlery is by New-Jersey-based housewares brand Zoku. Their Pocket Utensil Set comes in a pocketable carrying case made of polypropylene, with a silicone seal. The...
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Unnecessary Design Studio's Arm-Mounted Vacuum for Neater Snacking
This amusing arm-mounted vacuum is by Unnecessary Design Studio, a/k/a Matty Benedetto. It allows you to keep your fingers clean while picking up residue-laden snacks."The Snackuumâ„¢? The first handheld...
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Surprise: There's Still a Huge Market for Ashtrays
If you do an online search for ashtrays, you'll be shocked at how many offerings are on the market. If you're American, you'll likely find this strange; only 11% of us smoke cigarettes. In the rest of...
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Where to Source Specialty Washers with No Additional Tooling Costs
f you're spec'ing out a product and need a non-standard washer size, where do you turn? Boker's is a Minneapolis-based outfit that specializes in precision metal stamping and washer production. They've...
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The CenWatch: Yet Another Attempt at a Gesture Control Device
People's imaginations have been captured by gesture control since at least the 2000s, when Minority Report and later Iron Man showed characters using it. Today, 23 years after Minority Report's 2002...
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Asking "How" and "Why"
The Core77 Design Awards Sports & Outdoors category features consumer products or services created to encourage play, movement, or learning. Examples include toys, games, athletic equipment,...
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An Actually Useful Application for Gesture Control: Headlamp Activation
Each morning on the farm I clean out coops and change waterers, messy business that requires gloves. And, because corners of the coops are dark, a headlamp. The pain is turning it on and off; the...
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Design Competition: "Redesign Democracy" Calls for Better Voting Booth Designs
If you're a politically-minded industrial designer, it can be tough to draw a straight line between the work you do and the political system. However, Germany's University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK...
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Architect, Industrial Designer and Sculptor Robert Obier's Creations
Robert Obier has taken an unusual vocational path: Architecture degree from LSU, followed by a Masters of Industrial Design from ArtCenter. After all that, he opted to become a fine artist. Hopefully...
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An Alternative "Lo-Fi" Take on the Wallet
This "Lo-Fi Zipper Wallet," a/k/a the Brat Wallet is by Archie & Dennis, a Tel-Aviv-based bag brand. The titular founders are brothers who draw influences from items you'd find in an old Army-Navy...
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Form Follows Function: Snow Peak's Folding Butane Stove for Camping
For some campers no cooking stove is necessary, as meals will be cooked over an open flame with fuel gathered on-site. However Snow Peak, the Japanese high-end outdoor gear brand, primarily targets car...
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Industrial Design Case Study: A Smart Litter Picker-Upper
The mission of San Francisco-based startup Rubbish is to rid the world of litter. They created the Rubbish Beam, a primitive version of a smart litter picker-upper, which can pair with a smartphone...
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Core77 Weekly Roundup (2-18-25 to 2-21-25)
Here's what we looked at this week:Sleek portable cutlery by Zoku, an industrial-designer-led brand.Crowdfunding smash: These Xlaserlab X1 desktop laser welding machines.Breakfast's Billion Dollar...
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Fellow Products Channels Dieter Rams' Design Approach
"Don't design, just to design," says Jake Miller. "Set out to solve a problem. Then, solve that problem in the most elegant way imaginable."Miller runs Fellow Products, a company he founded to...
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1X Shows Off NEO Gamma, Their Domestic Servant Robot
One year ago we first saw EVE, the moderately creepy humanoid robot designed by Norwegian company 1X. Whereas EVE was designed for industrial and commercial environments, the company has since rolled...
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A Compact, Designey Power Strip by New Swedish Design Brand Kord
Industrial designer Gustav Rosén and business partner David Lindell recently launched Kord, a Swedish design brand. Their stock-in-trade, at least to start, is power. "We saw an opportunity to take...
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Phaidon's Forthcoming "Mid-Century Modern Designers" Book
Design writer Dominic Bradbury has been working on Mid-Century Modern Designers, "an homage to the design pioneers who defined the Mid-Century aesthetic through their work in furniture, glassware,...
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Helix: One AI Brain Controlling Two Robots at Once
As someone who grew up watching Star Wars, it's weird to realize that C-3PO was essentially an AI. So was R2-D2. Two AI's that had dominion over their own bodies, and nothing further.That's not the...
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Eskimo Design's Modernist Towel Heater
If you walked into a residential or hospitality-industry bathroom, and saw one of these, would you know what it was?That's the Gordon, which British manufacturer Eskimo Design bills as "Europe's most...
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Design Demands Optimism
The Core77 Design Awards Consumer Technology category features electronic devices, software, and gadgets that are designed for personal use by the general public and aim to improve daily life, enhance...
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